STANFORD, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 14, 2004--Stanford University today announced an ambitious plan to cooperate with Google Inc. in digitizing hundreds of thousands, perhaps millions, of books ...

Toni Morrison’s Song of Solomon is set in Michigan but begins with a reference to Durham: “The North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance agent promised to fly from Mercy to the other side of Lake Superior ...

Beneath a red awning tucked between Fleming's Prime Steakhouse and Wine Bar and a mere big brown bag's throw from Bloomingdale's in Palo Alto's Stanford Shopping Center is a small space filled with ...

The e-book has arrived folks, and if Amazon’s Kindle and Apple’s new iPad with its slew of e-reader apps doesn’t prove it, then ponder this: Stanford University’s Engineering school may be entering an ...

One chapter is closing — and another is opening — as Stanford University moves toward the creation of its first “bookless library.” Box by box, decades of past scholarship are being packed up and ...

When an aging library is torn down, Stanford University’s historic East Asian collection will suddenly find itself homeless. The collection comprises 520,000 Chinese, Japanese and Korean volumes that ...

The sold-out crowd in front of Green Library bustled with activity on July 15 as Stanford community members of different generations struck up conversation with each other, reminiscing about the times ...

Amid all the fuss over Stanford University’s announcement that they are unveiling a bookless library (is it the wave of the future? A sign of the literary apocalypse?), everyone seemed to be missing ...

The $7.7 million renovation of the first-floor East Wing of Stanford University’s Green Library reflects the library’s educational focus on technology. CAW Architects designed the renovation of the 30 ...

Stanford University has dropped out of the Association of Research Libraries, a prominent advocacy group for college and university libraries. Stanford officials said they were disappointed with the ...

Several of the Ivy League libraries and the Library of Congress are upgrading current infrastructure to use linked open data to enhance information. Stanford Libraries has received a $1.5 million ...